The design team set to work by the housing company, which is wholly owned by Manchester City Council, includes landscape architect Planit, engineers Buro Happold and ZCD Architects, acting as engagement consultants. The team was chosen by Mace, the leading contractor on the scheme.The project includes a 700-home masterplan for Monsall in north Manchester, a further 150 homes in Grey Mare Lane in east Manchester and another 150 at Hyde Road close to the National Speedway Stadium.All the sites will use brownfield land and developer This City said it was taking an inclusive approach to engagement, which included both traditional public consultation and new community panels for two of the sites, one working with typically hard-to-reach stakeholders in the local area and the other with a group of young people from a local school.AdvertisementManchester City Council has approved a further 5.1 million funding to progress the developments. The cash will support initial design work and surveying costs ahead of planning applications next year.Designs for the Hyde Road plots and Grey Mare Lane estate regeneration package are expected to be shown to the public in February and submissions lodged in May. Masterplanning for the Grey Mare Lane estate regeneration has already been completed as part of a partnership between Manchester City Council, Great Places Housing Group, One Manchester and This City.At Monsall, designs will be shown at public consultation in mid-March, with plans due to be submitted by the end of May.Both the market and affordable housing delivered through This City will contribute to Manchester City Councils wider housing strategy to build at least 36,000 homes by 2032. This vision includes 10,000 genuinely affordable, council and social homes of which at least 3,000 will be in the city centre.Founding director David Mikhail said that a fifth of the 1,000 proposed homes would be capped at the Manchester Living Rent.AdvertisementHe said: Manchester has long been a city that does things differently and we are delighted to have been chosen for such an exciting project. The council is planning to deliver their homes at speed, focusing on low energy bills for their residents while making high-quality new neighbourhoods.Mikhail Riches previous history of masterplanning large-scale housing schemes includes the 575 units it is working on at the Bridgewater triangle in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park and the 600-home low-carbon housing projects for City of York Council across multiple sites.In September, the practice, working with Periscope, was chosen by Capital & Centric to create a major new housing-led neighbourhood in Wolverhampton city centre on a site which previously housed a Sainsburys and a car park (winning design pictured below).The developer has teamed up with the City of Wolverhampton on the inclusive and sustainable transformation of the plot next to Wolverhamptons Grade II-listed St Georges Church, which has been disused since 2015.WINNER: Mikhail Riches and Periscope (Team 2)